Sealed-bid silent auction: 1.1 MILLION GHz-days of credit!

[Uncwilly]

I suspect that the winning bid amount might be posted once the funds are in hand (have gone through the series of tubes and offices of exchequers, etc.)

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by The Carnivore

Was it equal to or more than $50?

Yes.

[retina]

So who did those 1.1 PHzDays go to?

[Uncwilly]

Maybe Mike hasn't gotten the bearer bonds yet and thus hasn't transferred the credits. Maybe the slacker that refuses to do the work asked to stay anonimouse. Maybe it was Ben Delo and you would never notice the extra credits. Mike could have forgotten who it was. Maybe it was a person without a forum ID that e-mailed Mike. Maybe the check was bad. Or it was on one of the Amazon/Postal trucks that got burnt in the protests.

[axn]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Maybe the lowlife that refuses to do the work asked to stay anonimouse.

Lowlife? WTF?

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by axn

Lowlife? WTF?

Ok, "slacker". I will fix it.

[retina]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

We can say that the winning bid was less than $100 ...

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Yes.

So 1.102635043×10¹⁵ HzDays equals 95.2676677152 ExaCycles.

With the bid at $50 <= bid < $100, that makes it between:
952,676,677.152 GCycles/$ and 1,905,353,354.304 GCycles/$

Or, more simply, around 1 ExaCycle per dollar, within and order of magnitude.

But no one is owning up to the purchase!

All figures approximate and rounded for your convenience. Any mistakes are clearly deliberate and just there to test you.

[The Carnivore]

Here's a rough estimate of how much 1.1 million GHz days of computing power would be worth if they were all first-time LL tests:

1 LL test in the 90M range = 314 GHz days of computing power
Number of LL tests = 1,100,000 / 314 = 3,500 LL tests in 1.1 million GHz days
Odds that an LL candidate in the 90M range is prime = 1 in 700,000
Odds that one of those LL tests will be prime: 3,500 * 1/700,000 = 1 in 200
Award for finding new Mersenne prime: $3000

Value of 1.1 million GHz days = 1/200 *$3000 = $15

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by retina

But no one is owning up to the purchase!

As far as I can tell no one has been doing any data mining to try figure out the "purchaser."

This post does not clarity anything. The increment to the value is outside the bounds quoted above. There has been no direct acknowledgement that the funds transfer has been complete.

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

As far as I can tell no one has been doing any data mining to try figure out the "purchaser."

This post does not clarity anything. The increment to the value is outside the bounds quoted above. There has been no direct acknowledgement that the funds transfer has been complete.

Won't we know when the trial factoring top producers report shows a jump? Most of the purchased credits were TF.